Andy Hume
Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Hume is a senior engineering manager specializing in cloud platforms with 17 years' experience building scalable infrastructure for companies including Snyk, Twitter, Brandwatch and Microsoft. He founded and led Brandwatch’s Cloud Infrastructure group, migrating 90% of services to public cloud and running an internal developer platform that managed 200+ services across AWS, GCP and co-located datacentres. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and leader, he has driven continuous deployment, feature flagging, SLOs and developer experience improvements at scale. A long-time open-source contributor, he added a Fontdeck module to the widely used WebFont Loader project, demonstrating a front-end sensibility alongside deep platform expertise. Based in the Greater Brighton area, Andy mixes enterprise-grade cloud strategy with practical delivery and an unusual background as a professional trumpet player, which speaks to his discipline and collaborative performance under pressure.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BMus Music, BMus Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
exceptions10
python10
web-development10
css9
syntax9
html9
internet-explorer9
testing8
version-control6
usability6
reverse-engineering6
dom6
browser6
jquery6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
typekit/webfontloader
Nov 2010 - Nov 2011
Web Font Loader gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the integration of a Fontdeck module within the WebFont Loader project. Their work involved adding a new module for Fontdeck, including the necessary JavaScript code, tests, and demo files. These changes enabled the loading of fonts from Fontdeck, and the user also updated the unit tests and demo pages to reflect the new API endpoints and responses.
webfontloader
ahume/grunt-webfontjson
Mar 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years
gruntwrapgrunt-task
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